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Friday, 13 October 2017

"A fish-frail of stout" on Seafood Week's final #FishyFriday

"You can hear the dew falling, and the hushed town breathing. Only your eyes are unclosed to see the black and folded town fast, and slow, asleep. And you alone can hear the invisible starfall..."

the words, written originally for the radio rather than the stage, capture the very blackness of a harbour town in the dead of night when the sky is...

"the darkest-beforedawn minutely dewgrazed stir of the black, dab-filled sea where the Arethusa, the Curlew and the Skylark, Zanzibar, Rhiannon, the Rover, the Cormorant, and the Star of Wales tilt and ride."

"Fishermen grumble to their nets. Nogood Boyo goes out in
the dinghy _Zanzibar_, ships the oars, drifts slowly in the
dab-filled bay, and, lying on his back in the unbaled water,
among crabs' legs and tangled lines, looks up at the
spring sky"

With thanks to Dylan Thomas, for the words from Under Milk Wood, who married his wife-to-be Caitlin in Penzance registry office before honeymooning in the Lobster Pot Hotel and drinking in the Ship Inn..

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